McCain finally tries to tame the mob:

I still maintain that McCain wasn’t really going for this angle when he started his Ayers attacks.  I really do feel he was going for the leftist-hippie-America-hater attack, not the scary-secret-muslim-foreigner attack.  It’s just not John McCain to push that.  Look, John McCain has definitely been a downright sleazeball this entire campaign, but one thing has always remained certain:  John McCain thinks John McCain is a decent, honorable man.  He must be able to rationalize to himself that he’s not doing anything wrong.  He needs to be able to reconcile with himself so that he can look at himself in the mirror.  And there’s just no amount of rationalizing (and trust me, I know; my brother is masterful at it) that can make the Obama-is-a-scary-arab-terrorist attack OK.

Now, having said that, John McCain definitely unleashed a monster here, and he did very little to stop it from taking shape.  For that he should be rightly ridiculed.  From the word “Terrorist” John McCain should have done something.  Instead, he let these feelings foment into a hateful mob, which has legitimately scared me.  And if you thing I’m being a little alarmist, check out the story of Yitzhak Rabin.

The fact of the matter is, John McCain let this go on for way too long.  Now he’s finally doing something about it.  It’s about time.

Tags: Barack Obama, John McCain, politics

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